Judges 1:22-27

New Catholic Bible

²² The descendants of Joseph^[a] attacked Bethel, and the Lord was with them. ²³ The descendants of Joseph had first sent up spies against Bethel. (Its name had previously been Luz.) ²⁴ The spies saw a man coming out of the city and said to him, “If you show us an entranceway into the city, we will be merciful to you.” ²⁵ He showed them an entranceway into the city, and they put the city to the sword, but they let the man and his entire family go free. ²⁶ The man traveled to the land of the Hittites and he built a city there that he called Luz, which is its name up to the present.

²⁷ Forced Labor. Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and the towns dependent upon it, Taanach and the towns dependent upon it, Dor and the towns dependent upon it, Ibleam and the towns dependent upon it, or Megiddo and the towns dependent upon it, for the Canaanites were determined to live in those places.